Franklin Herbert LICHTENWALTER

(1910-1973)

LICHTENWALTER, Franklin
Herbert, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Palmerton, Carbon County, Pa., on March 28, 1910; attended the
public schools of Palmerton and Upper Saucon Township; was
graduated from Allentown High School in 1929; engaged in general
insurance business 1933-1973; member of the State house of
representatives 1938-1947, serving as majority leader 1943-1946 and
as speaker in 1947; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth
Congress by special election, September 9, 1947, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Charles L. Gerlach; reelected to the
Eighty-first Congress and served from September 9, 1947, to January
3, 1951; was not a candidate for renomination in 1950 to the
Eighty-second Congress; resumed the insurance business; vice
president and managing director of Pennsylvania Electric
Association, Harrisburg, Pa.; died in Harrisburg, Pa., March 4,
1973; interment in St. Paul’s Blue Church Cemetery,
Coopersburg, Pa.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present